About the position
The Principal Software Engineer I is responsible for developing high-quality, innovative, fully performing software in compliance with coding standards. This individual works in partnership with cross-functional teams to ensure that software deliverables, including designs, codes, and tests, are completed in a timely manner, while remaining aligned with industry and organizational standards.
Responsibilities
- Provides support to the Engineering teams, with a high attention to detail
- Researches, analyzes, and documents findings
- May coach and review the work of other team members
- Designs, builds, and maintains large-scale production services, web applications, data pipelines, and streaming systems
- Works on systems critical to company’s current and future operations
- Debugs production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
- Assists with improvement of organizational engineering standards, tooling, and processes
- Participates in the testing process through test review and analysis, test witnessing, and certification of software
- Evaluates codes to ensure validity, proper structure, alignment with industry standards, and compatibility with operating systems
- Maintains an understanding of current technologies or programming practices through continuing education, reading or participation in professional conferences, workshops, or groups.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent business experience
- 5+ years of relevant experience
- Ability to manage projects and processes independently with limited supervision
- Advanced knowledge of applicable work area
- Ability to situationally adapt and understand new technology/processes as per business requirement
- Knowledge of a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures
- Ability to work constructively and independently under stress and pressure in a fast paced, multi-tasking environment
- Ability to manage competing priorities while producing high quality work
- Ability to interact positively and openly with colleagues and external business contacts, with strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong organization and time-management skills with the ability to meet reasonable deadlines
- Strong knowledge of programming languages and software basics
- Strong knowledge of relevant software development tools including version control, build processes, debuggers, and test frameworks
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in cloud-based CI/CD (CircleCI, GOCD, and Gitlab pipelines)
